Another Recommended Movie from me
Halfway
ORIGINAL TITLE : 途中で | HARUFUWEI | HALFWAY
RELEASE : 2009
COUNTRY : JAPAN
DIRECTOR : ERIKO KITAGAWA
RUNNING TIME : 85 MIN.
CAST : Kii Kitano
Masaki Okada
Jumpei Mizobata
Riisa Naka
Hiroki Narimiya
Miho Shiraishi
Takao Ōsawa
PLOT :
Hokkaido-based high school seniors Hiro (Kii Kitano) and Shu (Masaki Okada) are in love with each other. However, when Hiro finds out second-hand that Shu is persuing a college in Tokyo, she vehemently opposes his decision, wishing instead that he stay close by. Surrounding this one conflict is a number of conversations that find the young couple looking to the future while exploring the strength of their love for each other.
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Don’t expect dating a la Twilight here; Shu’s and Hiro’s date was simple. Very simple and sweet, watching it hurt me that I didn't have such a sweet high-school time. Shu and Hiro would ride their bikes together to school, singing songs together. He would buy her energy drinks from the vending machine. They would walk by the river after school together. Hiro would listen to Shu explaining about trigonometry, Shu would try to guess some English words from random Japanese words Hiro asked him. Shu would laugh at the way Hiro said ‘halfway’ (harufuwei, instead of halfway).
Simple, yet beautiful. And real as well. Who said that high-school broken hearts are not real? Almost all of us have experienced it. Who said that leaving our high-school sweetheart behind as we pursue higher education is not hard? And why should movies deal with complicated storylines to make them interesting? They don’t have to. Halfway proved it.
In short, Halfway was a memorable movie for me. It wasn’t a sad movie, despite the predictable and somewhat sad ending.
You can watch it here :
halfway
or download it here :
halfway-2009
ORIGINAL TITLE : 途中で | HARUFUWEI | HALFWAY
RELEASE : 2009
COUNTRY : JAPAN
DIRECTOR : ERIKO KITAGAWA
RUNNING TIME : 85 MIN.
CAST : Kii Kitano
Masaki Okada
Jumpei Mizobata
Riisa Naka
Hiroki Narimiya
Miho Shiraishi
Takao Ōsawa
PLOT :
Hokkaido-based high school seniors Hiro (Kii Kitano) and Shu (Masaki Okada) are in love with each other. However, when Hiro finds out second-hand that Shu is persuing a college in Tokyo, she vehemently opposes his decision, wishing instead that he stay close by. Surrounding this one conflict is a number of conversations that find the young couple looking to the future while exploring the strength of their love for each other.
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Don’t expect dating a la Twilight here; Shu’s and Hiro’s date was simple. Very simple and sweet, watching it hurt me that I didn't have such a sweet high-school time. Shu and Hiro would ride their bikes together to school, singing songs together. He would buy her energy drinks from the vending machine. They would walk by the river after school together. Hiro would listen to Shu explaining about trigonometry, Shu would try to guess some English words from random Japanese words Hiro asked him. Shu would laugh at the way Hiro said ‘halfway’ (harufuwei, instead of halfway).
Simple, yet beautiful. And real as well. Who said that high-school broken hearts are not real? Almost all of us have experienced it. Who said that leaving our high-school sweetheart behind as we pursue higher education is not hard? And why should movies deal with complicated storylines to make them interesting? They don’t have to. Halfway proved it.
In short, Halfway was a memorable movie for me. It wasn’t a sad movie, despite the predictable and somewhat sad ending.
You can watch it here :
halfway
or download it here :
halfway-2009